Concept

Engagement is a way of capturing attention, a way of alluring and a way of enticing to possess ownership. We could implement this as a way of attracting an audience, being drawn into a system and in turn be captivated. Such methods can include smoke screens, masquerade and stings.

We can be engaged in political upheaval and in contrast engaged to be married. Either way if one shows the willingness to engage then they are seized, arrested and caught, through an innocent human desire to absorb and be engrossed.

What happens when this engagement is done in a malicious, unlawful and corrupted way? When does the real become hyper-real? Entrapment is the process of this transition to occupy whether through political, artistic or personal systems.

What is the ethical concern over this? Is the viewer guilty for being engrossed in a piece of work that is deemed vulgar or inappropriate; a guilty pleasure? Is the accused guilty until proven innocent? Is the artist wrongly committed for a self-indulgent expression? Does this polarity repel or assist the convicted?

International artists have been invited to submit work which explores a subversive engagement, use tactics and trickery to captivate and which contests rules and laws of a system. Aesthetically, artists works entices the audience, engages them in viewing and ultimately entrap them into the work. Will the viewer be engrossed, cheated or convicted?

Works featured include traditional art forms of photography, painting and sculpture but also the contemporary processes of interventions, installations and new media.

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Cheon Hyeon Tae



South Korea

'Beauty of Korea' 
100x65.1 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Multimedia paper sculpture: 2,884,07 (GBP) 



My work is a conscious world we are working on the basis of strong national consciousness.
The paint and music in my work is inevitably fleeting and should simplify the function of emotion.
Screen configuration work is done to express the crew. Nongak. Mask dance, moon jar, etc ... ohbangsaek and harmony of materials to Korea via split screen, and using a method called colorful, composition, color field division achieved a spatial movement on the screen. Consonants and vowels of Hangul, the collages by using the object's geometric shapes in the form of foam board, emphasized the Beauty of Korea. Through the configuration space and dynamic division of based on experimentation to give a sense of depth to the space, rather than realistic representation of form, while a variety of colors with brush strokes of pointillism, cultivate a formative element.